Kindness Begets Kindness

"Be a positive, optimistic and kind person.  Whether you are a happy or unhappy person depends largely on yourself.  Negative and pessimistic people are generally unhappy people.  Be kind to others.  Kindness begets kindness."

-- Tommy Koh


"Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty."

-- Vernon Howard


"I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for the minds and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Happy 2013 to You

H ours of happy times with friends and family
A bundant time for relaxation
P rosperity
P lenty of love when you need it the most
Y outhful excitement at life's simple pleasures
N ights of restful slumber
E verything you need
W ishing you love and light
Y ears and years of good health
E njoyment and mirth
A ngels to watch over you
R embrances of a happy year!

Gratitude Super-Charge Success

"Your attitude about your life and how much gratitude you show on a daily basis can greatly impact your success.  In fact, the more grateful you are for what you already have (however minimal it may be), the faster you can achieve the success that you are looking for."

-- Denise Gosnell


"Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve."

-- Grenville Kleiser


"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Change Your World

"You can change your world!  To achieve anything worthwhile in life it is necessary to set high goals for yourself and want to achieve them.  Have you thought about the high goals you would like to achieve?"

-- W. Clement Stone


"Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either."

-- Elizabeth Zimmermann


"The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results."

-- Eknath Easwaran

Show Some Resilience

"We all mess up from time to time.  We all disappoint people now and again.  We all have our failures.  We all endure our share of troubles.  We need to accept that, show some resilience and keep pressing forward."

-- Gary Hayden


"We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value. The rapture that is associated with being alive is what it is all about."

-- Joseph Campbell


"Never use violence of any kind. Never threaten violence in any way. Never even think violent thoughts. Never argue because it attacks another's opinion. Never criticize because it attacks another's ego. And your success is guaranteed."

-- Mohandas Gandhi

Worry a Waste of Time

"In fact, worry is more than just a waste of time.  It is also, in the main, a destructive and self-defeating state of mind.  It drains us of energy, clouds our judgment, robs us of sleep, makes us irritable and nervous, and makes us more prone to making mistakes."

-- Gary Hayden


"Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude."

-- Albert Schweitzer


"I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself... and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part."

-- Shirley MacLaine

Narrow Your Focus

"Although it may seem counterintuitive, the more narrow your focus, the wider a net you can cast."

-- Steve Olsher


"There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary."

-- Emmanuel


"When you start using senses you’ve neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes."

-- Barbara Sher


"Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize."

-- Chimamanda Adichie

Happy and Merry Christmas 2013

"Christmas is not in tinsel and lights and outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It's lighting a fire inside the heart. Good will and joy a vital part. It's higher thought and a greater plan. It's glorious dream in the soul of man."?

-- Wilfred A. Peterson (The Art of Living)


"Teach us to value most eternal things.
To find the happiness that giving brings.
To know the peace of misty, distant hills.
To know the joy that giving self fulfils.
To realize anew this Christmas Day.
The things we keep are those we give away."

-- Marvin Davis Winsett (A Christmas Prayer)


"May you have the gladness of Christmas which is hope;
The spirit of Christmas which is peace;
The heart of Christmas which is love."

-- Ada V. Hendricks


"Wouldn't life be worth the living,
Wouldn't dreams be coming true,
If we kept the Christmas spirit,
All the whole year through."

-- Motivationstuff.com

Guilt Over Stupid Things

"The thing you need to realize is that guilt over stupid things will keep you from getting what you want out of life.  By stupid things, I mean situations and events that you cannot possibly have any control over."

-- Rolf Nabb


"Higher consciousness, enLIGHTenment, comes from meaningful experiences and lessons passed with the understanding that there truly is only one law - the Law of Love. When one leads a life expressing this belief, the mind and heart begin to open to new realities, and other dimensional truths become known."

-- Dr. Norma Milanovich & Dr. Shirley McCune


"Each of us will one day be judged by our standard of life -- not by our standard of living; by our measure of giving -- not by our measure of wealth; by our simple goodness -- not by our seeming greatness."

-- William Arthur Ward

Expect Success

"If you expect the best, you are much more likely to get it.  If you expect a happy life, you will be more likely to get it.  And if you expect that you're going to succeed, you will."

-- Rolf Nabb


"The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life."

-- Wendell Berr


"You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back."

-- Barbara De Angelis


"To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest."

-- Pema Chodron